Administrative records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records that relate to budget, personnel, supply, and similar facilitative operations within an organization.
Found in 293 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
17th century-20th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10482
Dates:
1983-1991.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12325
Dates:
1969-1986.
Correspondence and papers of the Scottish Mathematical Council.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10721
Dates:
1966-1972.
Correspondence and papers of the Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7554
Scope and Contents
Largely in connection with the Society`s records preservation and cataloguing projects.
Dates:
1963-1978
Correspondence and papers of YWCA (Young Women`s Christian Association) Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11906
Dates:
circa 1910-1990.
Correspondence, drafts, proofs and other papers relating to the publication of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia of the laws of Scotland'; with proofs of "Scotland under 'Jus Commune'", by Gero Dolezalek.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11261/1-368
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, correspondence, administrative papers and drafts of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia'. Note that no attempt has been made 'to weed' the various drafts; this is to allow researchers to compare draft against draft and so follow each expert’s 'train of thought' in particular fields. For any particular area of interest, all the folders/files relating to the subject should be consulted. In items 322-366, particularly, there are extensive drafts and re-drafts of titles with...
Dates:
1981-1996, 2010.
Correspondence, publication files and financial papers of Canongate Publishing Limited; with papers of Southside Publishers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9885/1-143
Scope and Contents
Includes papers relating to publicity and typescript and proof copies of manuscripts.
Dates:
1969-1988, undated.
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students (ECCOS) archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11199
Dates:
1919-1995.
Editorial and other records of Galliard Publishing Ltd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11690
Dates:
1989-1996.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Five French workers' record books.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5693
Scope and Contents
Five French Workers’ record books of various communes in the département of the
Loire, arrondissement of St. Êtienne, 1837, 1856, 1867, 1876, with entries up to 1894.
The books contain printed extracts of the law relating to employees, and manuscript
details of individual workers.Employers recorded the arrival and departure of each employee in his or her livret, and
the employee had to carry and show the book to confirm his release from his previous
employment; changes were...
Dates:
1837-1876
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Further records of the Edinburgh Booksellers' Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14473
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Annual Reports 1945-52, 1953-62.
Cash books 1884-1921, 1940-1966.
Correspondence 1967-1983.
Investment register, 1923-1958.
EBS Social Fund, 1922-1940.
Expedition to Grasmere, 1933.
Laws and regulations, 1792, 1959, 1975, 1984.
Dates:
1884-1989
General order book of the Coastguard station at Belhelvie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10330
Scope and Contents
Contains copies of orders and papers of John J Arrow, Commander, Royal Navy, at Aberdeen.
Dates:
1821-1824.
Letter books and other administrative papers of Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson and Haldane, accountants, Edinburgh.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6444/1-14
Dates:
1824-1957.
Literary papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, of Dionysia Press.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13010/1-82
Dates:
1988-2008.
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
File
Identifier: Acc.9999
Scope and Contents
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Dates:
1980-1989.
Manuscripts from the Wordie Collection of printed books, being correspondence and papers of Sir James M Wordie, together with manuscript material owned by him.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9501-9568
Dates:
1875-1959, undated.
Microfilm of books of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.427
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1612-1793 (MS.3577);
Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1793-1845 (MS.3578).
Dates:
1612-1845.
Microfilm of borrowers' books of the Gray Library, Haddington.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1376
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Borrowers' book, 1732-1789 (MS.16480);
Borrowers' books, 1790-1816 (MS.16481).
Dates:
1732-1816.